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Japan governor tells Tepco bosses nuclear plant to stay shut

Reuters,  By Kentaro Hamada | NIIGATA, JAPAN, Jan 5, 2017 

The governor of Japan’s Niigata prefecture reiterated his opposition to the restart of Tokyo Electric Power’s (Tepco) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, adding it may take a few years to review the pre-conditions for restart.

During a meeting on Thursday with Tepco Chairman Fumio Sudo and President Naomi Hirose, Governor Ryuichi Yoneyama, who was elected in October on his anti-nuclear platform, repeated his pledge to keep the plant shut unless a fuller explanation of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster was provided.

He also said that evacuation plans for people in Niigata in case of a nuclear accident and the health impacts that the Fukushima accident have had would need to be reviewed before discussing the nuclear plant’s restart……..http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-tepco-idUSKBN14P0IK

January 6, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, politics